KQ staff. [Photo/Nation]
Kenya Airways has set tough employment conditions for contract workers who have been seeking to be hired directly.
The airline this week distributed forms to the workers requiring them to sign up allowing Kenya Airways to begin digging into their backgrounds.
The consent forms will see KQ contact the landlords of workers and also receive a report on their borrowing history from the credit reference bureau TransUnion.
They will also need to have a clean social media record. Investigations will as well dig into the criminal as well as the litigation history of the prospective employees.
KQ has at least 1,000 contract staff hired through about five recruitment firms — Career Directions Limited (CDL); Insight Management; Tradewinds Aviation Services; Preferred Personnel Africa; and Strami.
The contract workers have been pushing KQ to hire them directly, citing better terms offered to their counterparts who perform the same job.
The consent forms have been given to Career Directions and Insight Management employees.
KQ is seeking to hire at least 300 staff.